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MEERUT: It was meant to beryllium a picture-perfect wedding — a constable acceptable to wed a chap constable successful a lucifer arranged by their families. Invitations had gone out, preparations were complete, and the signifier was acceptable for the ceremony.Then, connected Saturday, a nighttime earlier the wedding, the 25-year-old bride-to-be, Sandhya Bhardwaj, vanished.Bhardwaj, who hailed from Akbarpur Sadat colony successful Meerut's Bahsuma region, walked retired of her location and disappeared. Unaware of her whereabouts, her father, Subhash Sharma, approached constabulary connected Sunday, alleging that Ankit Chauhan, 28, a history-sheeter facing 9 transgression cases, including robbery and murder, had abducted his daughter.
He said she had taken 20 days' permission for her wedding to Atul Sharma, a constable from Muzaffarnagar, and had returned location from her posting astatine the cyber constabulary presumption successful Aligarh."On Feb 5, Chauhan threatened the groom implicit the phone, saying helium would termination him if helium joined my daughter. On Saturday night, helium abducted her," Sharma alleged successful his complaint. An FIR was subsequently registered against Chauhan nether BNS sections 87 (kidnapping) and 351(2) (criminal intimidation).
Police traced Bhardwaj wrong 8 hours to Buxar successful Meerut. When questioned, however, the lawsuit took a melodramatic turn. She denied being abducted and told constabulary she had near of her ain accord. Investigators said Bhardwaj had known Chauhan for the past fewer years. "She met him during visits to her aunt's location successful Dhikoli village, from wherever Chauhan hails," said Mawana ellipse serviceman (CO) Pankaj Lavania.Chauhan's record, constabulary said, includes respective cases of loot and murder.
Last May, helium was arrested pursuing a constabulary brushwood successful transportation with a liquor store robbery and was precocious released connected bail.As the stunned groom called disconnected the wedding, the bride remained firm, asserting her close to choose, adjacent if her prime stood successful stark opposition to the azygous she wears. SP (rural) Abhijeet Kumar said she would soon beryllium produced earlier a court.
